Multidisciplinary Tours

Writing + Art

Writing + ArtAvailable December through June

This tour, inspired by the National Writing Project at Carroll University and grounded in the Six Traits of Writing framework, introduces the Museum as a place of inspiration for writing. After receiving their own Museum journals/sketchbooks, students look closely at works of art, using a variety of writing skills, developing a descriptive word bank, and practicing "low stakes" writing.

Music + Art

Extend your MSO Concert for Schools experience with a docent-guided tour of the Museum's works that relate to concert themes. For a complete listing of this year's concerts and tours, please contact the MSO.

Theater + Art

First Stage Performance Company and MAM Tour

Larry Sultan - Artistic Viewpoints of Family and HomeDecember 2 or 3, 2015 9:30am to 11:30amStudents will experience the first retrospective of the internationally recognized California photographer Larry Sultan on a docent guided tour of the exhibition, and then join First Stage Teaching Artists as they dramatically discover the complex and sometimes conflicting narratives Sultan explores in his photographs and compare and contrast the artist's viewpoint with their own.

Theater + Art

Nature and the American Vision - Setting the Stage

April 26 & 27, 2016 9:30am to 11:30am
Students will explore these landscapes that embody powerful ideas about nature, culture and history on a docent-led tour of the exhibition, and then join First Stage Teaching Artists as they actively investigate how environment aids in the telling of a story, creation of characters, and sequencing of events.

Art of Writing Young Authors and Artists Conference

Fall Edition December 1, 2015, 8:30am to 3:15pm

Young writers and artists use the Museum as inspiration for first-person narrative writing or artwork in this daylong, statewide conference. Through brainstorming, drafting, revising, and working with teachers and peers, they produce a finished manuscript or artwork that is then published. The Museum collaborates with the Kettle Moraine School District for this program.

For more than thirty-five years, the Junior Docent School Program has introduced elementary school students to the vocabulary, elements, and history of art while developing critical thinking skills. Over three consecutive years, students visit nine times, contextualizing art into their life. After a culminating project presented to their peers and family, they become official Junior Docents!

Grades 3–5

9 visits over 3 years

1–1½ hours each visit

$5 per student, per tour

To be added to the waiting list for this program, please email teachers@mam.org.

This program is run through schools. If you are a parent looking for art opportunities for your child, please refer to Youth and Family Classes.